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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:11:19 -0800
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On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:03:51 -0500, Eric Sosman
<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:

[snip]

>The same article has other rather startling estimates of present-day
>data capacities and rates.  Some appear to contradict each other, by
>as much as 1-1.5 decimal orders of magnitude, but the overall burden
>is clear: "64 bits" is not a synonym for "forever."

     Fortunately, we have zetta- and yotta-.  There have been
suggestions for other prefixes beyond these, but I understand that
none of them have been officially adopted as SI.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko